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Mahmoud Abbad (Abu Mazen) President

• 69 years old
• U.S. and Israeli choice for new head of PLO
• Was in exile with Arafat in Tunis, ties between them were fraught and he refused to return to Gaza with Arafat in 1994.
• Returned to West Bank in 2003 to become President

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